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If you want to use a slow cooker

Gently fry your onions, carrots and thyme for 15 mins then tip it with the veg into your slow cooker with 1 litre stock. If you're using a chicken carcass, add it now. Cover and cook for 2-3 hours on High until the veg is tender. If you used a carcass remove it now, shredding remaining chicken from bones. Stir back into the soup, or add leftover chicken now, plus peas. Cook for 30 mins more. Remove half the mixture then puree with a stick blender to your liking.

Tip

Feta & spinach scones

Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4.
Put 280g self-raising flour and a large
pinch of salt into a large bowl and make
a well in the centre. In a separate bowl,
combine 100g cubed feta, 3 tbsp
sunflower oil, 2 eggs, 280ml Greek
yogurt and a small handful baby
spinach leaves, roughly chopped. Stir
into the flour to form a soft dough, tip
onto a floured surface and shape into a
thick, flattish round. Brush with milk. Bake
for 40-45 mins. Cool, then serve in wedges.

I love that people are starting to actually be aware of this problem more and more! Because it is not only about wasting food, also saving money and even saving time as we don't need to run to the supermarket to buy something!Now I am all in! It's all thanks to Tesco! They made me discover how we should love food and hate waste!

Great recipe. Very easy, even for complete beginner. Delicious even without the yogurt / lemon / garlic for serving. I had exactly 300 gm. of left over roast chicken (once I had stripped the carcass, bone, skin etc).This was just enough; more would be fine but I wouldn't recommend using less than 300 gm. Next time will try with celery - thanks for tips below.

Delicious! Best soup I've made. Only difference is I added celery with the other veg and I blended it all then put the chicken and peas in. Didn't bother with the garlic yoghurt, was going to put some cream in at the end instead but it didn't near it, was lovely on its own. Probably helps that it was a delicious roast chicken in the first place, and I used the cooking juice from it.

The loveliest chicken soup we have made. I add in a stick of celery at the beginning with the carrots etc. I also make some cheese scones and they are just the most perfect accompaniment to his soup...mmmm I shall be cooking this again tonight!

Well, I made this late last night for my husband to take to work today. I accidently added veg stock rather than chicken (it was very late!) and this may well account for it's strange taste! I thought it was very sweet and not really to my liking. May try again with correct stock!

I altered the recipe to work with what I had available. Used 1litre of home made stock, a small bunch of chopped celery as well and left out thyme as I didn't have any but used peppercorns and bay leaves instead. I also added some cubes of potato after blending to make more filling and it was delicious and thick. Perfect for a cold evening. I think adding more stock or water like the original recipe would make a more watery soup but it will be just as delicious.

Living on an island where food is shipped in once a week-with limited choice-all meats are frozen.. and the cost of food being extortionate, I HATE to waste food and therefore look for inspiration, hence making this soup. I cooked it in a slow cooker (given electricity is ludicrously priced), and twice the ingredients.... I added frozen lima beans, noodles and parsley.. OH MY! And will add scotch bonnet and cilantro for a change later in the week. A WONDERFUL recipe, THANK YOU!...sorry must have a second portion...

If you say 'cilantro' you may be in the Windies. If on Trini, you have my deepest condolences. In a branch of the leading s/mkt on Trini a kind customer tried to find me a decent specimen of a veg I'd never heard of and could not ID if it dropped on my toe [but was instructed to get by 'she who must be obeyed'] All she could find were grotty ones. She remarked that "this supermarket is well known for its rotting vegetables".

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